4 Quotes & Sayings By Kristen Iversen

Kristen Iversen is the author of the bestselling novel The Marrying Kind. She is also the author of the YA novel, The Man Who Loved Ugly Things, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and an ALA Notable Book. Her first adult novel, The Wilds, was an Oprah's Book Club selection and was named one of "8 Great Summer Reads" by the Wall Street Journal. Her second novel, The Recovering, received starred reviews across the country and was named to Publisher's Weekly's list of Best Books of 2009 Read more

She has written essays for publications including O Magazine and More magazine, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Redbook, and many others. He is also the author of two novels for young readers: The Great American Girl Swap (St. Martin's Griffin) and A Dog Named Christmas (HarperCollins).

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His shirt is rumpled. His fingers, long and slender, are stained yellow at the tips from smoking. His mind is always on something else. My mind is busy, too, reading every cue and signal, keeping track of all the things that cannot be discussed, that must not be remembered, that have to be erased. Kristen Iversen
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The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our experiences. The land, too, carries the burden of all its changes. To truly see and understand a landscape is to see its depth as well as its smooth surfaces, its beauty and its scars. Kristen Iversen
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I have always loved the many moods of the sky at Rocky Flats. Turquoise and teal in summer, fiery red at sunset, iron gray when snow is on the way. The land rolls in waves of tall prairie grass bowed to the wind, or sprawling mantles of white frosted with a thin sheath of ice in winter. Kristen Iversen